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LA Vocab 11/17/08
week before Thanksgiving
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| (n) a loan or credit, often to buy a house | mortgage |
| (v) to pretend to have an illness in order to avoid work | malinger |
| (n) something handed down from the past; inheritance | legacy |
| (n) racist, someone with unreasonable prejeduce | bigot |
| (adj) easy-to-fool; trusting (often too much) | gullible |
| (adj) cheap; economical; tendency to avoid unnessecary spending | frugal |
| (adj) overly proud, filled with self-importance | arrogant |
| (v) to be the first to think of or create | conceive |
| (v) to be given; to take delivery of | receive |
| (v) to get something back, or to recover an object | retrieve |
| (v) to accept as true | believe |
| (n) naughtiness; misbehavior but usually nothing terrible | mischief |
| (adj) merciful; not severe | lenient |
| (v) to mislead or trick | deceive |
| (n) buddy; aquaintence | friend |